We start off in Andrew's imaginary
world, where he's sitting by a fire place, enjoying a good book while he
talks to his "gentle viewers." His goal is to tell the story of Buffy,
slayer of the vampires. He recounts the adventure he had with Buffy in
the cemetery where he was filming the all the fight scenes, despite the
fact that Buffy didn't want to be filmed. Andrew is suddenly snapped
back into reality when Anya opens the door on him; he was busy filming
himself in the bathroom while everyone else needs to use it. She yanks
him out of there and tells him that she thinks his story is pointless
because they all figure they're probably going to die anyway. Andrew
continues with his story anyway, demonstrating for the camera a big board he's
drawn, showing the Hellmouth, the high school, the First and the
Bringers, explaining all the problems they're causing.

The next morning, Andrew takes to
filming the potential slayers while they're eating breakfast. He goes
through a hysterical slow motion montage of Buffy, Spike and Anya but
then stops when Buffy complains about him filming yet again. Buffy
seems to be the only one that thinks Andrew's video montages are idiotic. She
suddenly starts in on another one of her speeches while Andrew walks off
because he figures her speeches are way too long. He begins to tell the
video camera a bit about his past and how he used to be a super villain.
He pans back to Buffy, wondering if she's done her speech yet and he
notices how bored even Willow appears to be. He then thinks back to last year when
Willow went evil, except his version is a little different, changing it so
that he deflected Willow's power with his own magic.

Buffy goes to school only to find two
students fighting in the hall, she jumps in to stop them, ushering them
on to class. She then notices a girl who's becoming invisible and has to
smack her in order to bring her back. Everywhere Buffy goes, students are
panicking, fighting or crying. She finds Robin in the office and
he can't figure out what's going on, except she knows that everything
the students are feeling are actually coming true because the Hellmouth
is influencing them all. Buffy figures that it's the symbol in the
basement that's causing the increase in bad vibes. Back at the Summers'
home, Andrew is interviewing Xander and Anya and starts off by asking
about their failed wedding much to their surprise. In the school
basement, Buffy tells Robin that she had a vision of all kinds of ubervamps underneath that seal. He steps onto the seal, trying to study
it when he suddenly becomes possessed and starts swearing at Buffy. But
as soon as he steps off he becomes depossessed. Realizing that they need
to close this symbol up, Buffy decides to talk to Andrew who may be able
to help, seeing as how he was the one to get it going in the first
place. Meanwhile, Anya and Xander are finally confessing that they
still love each other, though they don't know if that means anything
anymore. Buffy and Robin return home to find Andrew and tell him that he
has to work the mojo on the symbol. Meanwhile, several students have
entered the basement and circle around the symbol. As they lift their
hands above it, a bright light emanates from the center of the seal.

Flashback - Mexico, 2002 - Andrew and
Jonathan are asleep and having nightmares about the First Evil and the
powers it has. Snapped back into the present, Willow tells Andrew to
concentrate on the crystal, which will help him bring out his past
memories. Andrew concentrates once again, and as Jonathan heads off the
washroom, the First Evil appears to Andrew in the form of Warren. He
asks Andrew if he got the knife he needed, which Andrew did. Warren then
tells him if he kills Jonathan, they'll all become gods. In the present,
Willow realizes they need to see that knife, and Kennedy gets it where
Andrew hid it: in the utensils drawer. The knife is imprinted with the
demon language Tuwarick and Andrew translates it to say that the blood
it spills is consecrated to the oldest evil. Willow does some quick
research, and Buffy decides to bring Andrew to the symbol and see if he
can talk to it.

They arrive at the school to find it
almost destroyed, kids are rioting everywhere. Andrew is still filming
with his video camera, narrating the whole way. Buffy, Spike and Robin
are attacked by students that they try fighting off. Spike and Robin try
to maintain control upstairs while Buffy and Andrew go into the
basement. Andrew then begins to recount his stabbing of Jonathan,
changing his story twice to make him seem like the good guy. They find
themselves at the seal, and it's surrounded by students. Meanwhile back
at the Summers' home, Anya and Xander are in bed together after having
made love. But they figure it was a last time deal. Back at the school,
Robin tries to stake Spike but is suddenly attacked by a student,
preventing him from doing the deed. Buffy scares off the students in the
basement after fighting with them briefly. She's left alone with Andrew
and they begin to circle around the seal. Buffy tells Andrew that the
seal only knows blood and that the blood of the person who first spilled
the blood of another on the seal can close it down. Buffy tells
Andrew to stop making excuses and to stop making stories where no one
is responsible for their evil deeds. She angrily attacks him verbally, telling him he
murdered his friend and in the future people are going to die, probably
him, probably right now. She grabs him and holds him over the seal as
Andrew begins to cry. He doesn't feel he'll redeem himself if he dies.
He knew that Warren was controlling him too much and he's terrified that
he's going to die. As his tears fall onto the seal, it closes up and
Andrew realizes that Buffy wasn't really going to stab him, but that the
seal just needed his tears to close it up.

Later on, back at home, Andrew
confesses to the camera that he killed his best friend and with the big
fight coming up, he doesn't know what's going to happen. Or even if
he'll live through it. Realizing he's had enough with stories, he turns
the camera off.

Summary written by
Nika

Quote of the Week

Anya: What are you doing? You've been in here for
30 minutes!Andrew: Entertaining and educating.Anya: Why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us?

My Rating

5/5

Nika's Review

Dear god, this is episode was so frigging funny. There
is nothing about Tom Lenk's acting that I don't like. (oops, hello
double negative. Ah well.) He's just absolutely amazing and his
character is unbelievably hysterical. The opening sequence? Buffy,
slayer of the VAM-pires. And then the scenes where Warren, Andrew and
Jonathan are leaping about the field yelling "We are gooooodds." Oh god,
I just about died laughing. I love Andrew's different takes on actual
events. Such as when he retells last year's finale, but suddenly he's
the one deflecting Willow's power. And then at the end when he's
describing to Buffy how he stabbed Jonathan and he yells "Get out of my
heaaaaad!" Just priceless. I also liked how Andrew pointed out how long
Buffy's speeches were and then eventually went back when she'd finished
talking. That's exactly how I'm starting to feel about her
"motivational" speeches.

Spike's smoking again this episode... and he was
becoming more violent in this episode as well. Buffy had to tell him not
to kill the students. Interesting... interesting...

One thing about the Xander and Anya sex thing... Last
time Anya tried to get over Xander (back in Season 3), she slept with
him. Now the same thing happened here. I wonder if we can expect them to
get back together, even though they both said it felt like a last time
deal.

One thing I really didn't like was why Andrew's tears
cause the symbol to seal up. His stabbing of Jonathan didn't open
the seal up, so therefore he's not the killer that got the seal open.
Sure, there's the whole remorse thing... but I still don't get how that
would affect the seal. Very weird.